Tag: Equipoise
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True cybernetics
Reading about the Geniac ‘logic machine’ reminded me of an IBM machine that turned digital counts into an analog balance measurement. This was cybernetic in the true sense, directly modeling an analog neuron. Modern AI is strictly digital. WHEN ANALOG FERTILIZED DIGITAL IBM started with the purely digital and mostly mechanical Hollerith sorter. The sorter…
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For clarity
After mentioning homeopathy in previous item, a footnote for clarity. I don’t know for sure if homeopathy is better or worse than establishment medicine. I know for DAMN SURE that homeopaths are better than establishment doctors. Re-re-repeating an old couplet: How do you know which side of a “debate” is good? “Scientists” jail you for…
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Lite Ledger
Via DailyMail: On Sunday, Beer Business Daily reported that the beer’s off-premise sales volume – meaning the amount of beer sold outside of restaurants and bars – had fallen by 26.1 percent from a year earlier. Coors Light’s volume was up 13.3 percent for the same time period, and Miller Lite rose 13.6 percent. Hmm.…
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0 IQ = 0 IQ
This sort of shit is not my department, but it’s just too weird to leave alone. Apparently the last straw for CNN bosses was Don Lemon’s interview with Vivek, who is allegedly running for president. Both of these dudes are observing reality through slogan lenses. Lemon has proved his disconnect many times, especially “women are…
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Back door Fairness Doctrine
CNN supposedly decided to cut down on its partisan lunacy after QT forced media to pay more attention to PROFIT. /// Update: And CNN fired Don Lemon today after leaving him in purgatory for a while. Nice symmetry! Now Fox is moving in the same direction, forced by a lawsuit about the lunatic “election” crap.…
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Nice symmetry
Powell is no longer entirely alone in turning us back toward a REAL HONEST COUNTRY WITH A REAL HONEST ECONOMY. Peculiarly enough, the Biden administration is taking genuine steps to bring our stuff back from China. Via Reuters, the administration is using the Defense Production Act to spend $50 million on incentives for PC board…
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Make your own holiday day!
Today is Make Your Own Holiday Day! In keeping with multiple narrative levels, Polistra declares BE YOUR OWN BEACON DAY! = = = = = START REHASH: After seeing a picture of the Elgin Observatory and realizing the building still exists, I had to animate it. Because it’s a National Historical Landmark, there’s a document…
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Go all the way
Wesley Smith is complaining about the movement toward “rights” for inanimate things like rivers. He wants to reserve “rights” only for humans. In the first place, “rights” are a recent and destructive invention. God never said anything about “rights”. In all the old scriptures, God talks about duties, not “rights”. In the second place, you’ll…
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Thanks, algo!
Among the social platforms, Medium is especially bad and especially sticky. Good old partial reinforcement. When you start with a good experience, you keep hoping for another one. I started with some good reads by Avi Loeb, and Medium continued to provide about 1 out of 20 interesting pieces. The other 19 were aggressively harmful.…
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Unbash when deserved
I’ve bashed TheFederalist a couple times lately, so I should unbash when unbash is due. In this podcast on the idiotic soap opera of Congress, they get down to HARDASS realism. They recognize that the “political” parts of the federal government, including “elections”, have been completely nonexistent and nonfunctional for several decades, and they also…
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Reprint: Trying a question
Looking at Statcounter for the old blog, noticed several of my semi-regular readers are looking at this item about plant intelligence. I can’t tell if they’re mocking it or discussing it, but it’s definitely one of the better things I’ve written. I was highlighting and extending what Francis Darwin and Dorothea Pertz were saying in…
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Reprint on pay vs value
Linked in previous item, worth a reprint. From 2018. = = = = = START REPRINT: Yet another proposal to counteract big money in politics: At their heart, political campaigns are no different than any other organization: they need to raise revenues and then spend it to meet their objectives. Organizations are responsive to who…
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Never hear the question
Random observation connected to my long-lasting theme on government as a business. Real businesses, at least when seeking profit, try to keep existing customers and bring back missing customers. Now that QT is starting to restore the profit loop, we should see more of this attitude. Even before QT, online businesses routinely detect that I’ve…
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Fill the reader or fulfill the writer?
Both sides are sticking to the peculiar Shared Lie that newspapers are supposed to “hold power accountable” or “speak truth to power”. The two sides have different party-based definitions of which truth and which power, but they’re both essentially wrong. Newspapers were ALWAYS working for one party or for the owner’s business interests. Newspapers are…
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Regret?
As equipoise to previous ‘thankful’ item, here’s a newly formed regret. This week I’ve had a standard common cold. It’s not standard for me! My nose gets annoyed sometimes from dust or allergens, but I haven’t had a proper cold in at least 50 years. I had to google the right way to cough and…
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